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Another frame from the test roll of a new-to-me film. I don’t often photograph people but I’m trying to change that. I live and work downtown so there are opportunities to do more street/people photography but it’s far outside my comfort...
Frequent commenter Y sent me a link to Glottle saying “Probably something after your heart,” and boy was he right. The goal is to guess the mystery language; for each guess you are told how close your guessed language is to the target...
some observations: i still need to be Vigilant, i find myself reaching for backgammon outside the one designated period having the no/low-internet account results in the laptop staying "harmlessly" open all day and it makes me /feel/...
I am following up my last post about how I write with a text about how I specifically get that writing done with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. 🧂 It cannot be a straightforward answer. POTS can be completely disabling, a...
I released kamal-backup 1.0 today. Not because the backup command works. That part worked months ago. I called it 1.0 because I used it to move Chat with Work, the application that pays my bills, to a new Hetzner instance. The old host...
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It is a testament to how much things have changed in competitive NES Tetris – a game released the same month the Berlin Wall fell – that this 1hr documentary by Summoning Salt that talks about the 2018 Tetris Championship covers the...
WEDGE ANTILLES STAR WARS RETRO COLLECTION (HASBRO) Hey! Hey! Did you guys know that Wedge Antilles is my favorite Star Wars character? Even though he’s minor? And that it’s not the expanded universe stuff that I like, it’s literally just...
I finished reading 'The Dead Zone' by Stephen King yesterday, it's the first King book I've read (I know, shocking given how much I read, they never appealed to me before). But about half way through, I found that I couldn't put it down,...
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Delilah Brumer is a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle. This article appeared August 24, 2026 Palo Alto parent Tilli Bannett is a venture capitalist who invests in tech companies, but at a recent school board meeting, she...
Boxfishes are little boxes of armor. Their only moving parts are eyes, mouth, and fins! Females are a dark brown covered with white spots. Males are a beautiful blue with white spots only on the back, and some gold highlights. And,...
Near the palm-strewn beaches of Komodo Island, a sea turtle hatches. She is tiny and vulnerable, but must make her way to the ocean via a series of obstacles – the obstacles mostly being other animals that want to eat her. Whether it’s...
Since toot.community is shutting down in the next couple of months, I have moved my presence over the Mastodon network asking hospitality to my friends over the masto.cazzo.lol instance, a privately managed one. So from today 27 august...